English-French translations for errand

• affaire
• commission
• course
  Le Parlement ne devrait pas se réduire à une clique de garçons de courses représentant les gouvernements des États membres. Parliament should not be reduced to a collection of errand boys of Member State governments.
  N'avez-vous jamais pensé à la manière dont ils doivent affronter certains problèmes, même en faisant simplement leurs courses? Have you ever thought about how they must face unresolved situations even while on a common shopping errand?
  De la même manière, il enverra son garçon de courses, M. Miliband, à Lisbonne jeudi pour signer le traité le Lisbonne. In the same way, he will send his errand boy, Mr Miliband, off to Lisbon on Thursday to sign up to the Lisbon Treaty.

Definition of errand

• A journey undertaken to accomplish some task
• The purpose of such a journey
• An oral message trusted to a person for delivery
• To send someone on an errand
• To go on an errand

Examples

• The errands before he could start the project included getting material at the store and getting the tools he had lent his neighbors
• Im going to town on some errands
• All the servants were on holiday or erranded out of the house.
• She spent an enjoyable afternoon erranding in the city.

Related words

• Krugerrand
• Clermont-Ferrand
• Ferrand
• errand boy
• Ferrandaise cattle
• fool's errand
• lost errand
• running errands
• do errands